Chapter 13 By-Products
Starting in September.
Hailufeng Company sold glass eels in large quantities to surrounding areas, and soon all 7.6 million glass eels were sold in less than a month.
The average price of each glass eel is about 2.65 yuan, and a total of 20.14 million yuan was sold.
The first wave of money returned will cover the cost of the previous investment.
In the next two months, an average of 7.6 million glass eels will be produced, which means that the farm will generate an income of about 10 million for the company every month.
at the same time.
At the same time, at the eel cannery, all 5,000 female eels after spawning had been slaughtered and frozen in August.
In fact, the fish meat after processing 5,000 eels is only about 7 tons.
The specifications of the canned eel customized by Hailufeng Eel Canning Factory are 150 grams net content and no less than 65% solid content, that is, 100 grams of eel meat per can, and 7 tons of eel meat can produce 70,000 cans of canned eel.
According to the production efficiency of that production line, 70,000 cans of canned eels can only be produced in half a month.
However, in the later stage, after the scale of the breeding farm is expanded, the cannery will also be able to produce at full capacity.
Jiang Miao is not getting carried away. He plans to continue to expand production and expand the breeding farm to 200 acres.
Li Xinhua, the cannery management manager recruited some time ago, now has a headache.
The fourth floor of the cannery is the research and development area.
Manager Li Xinhua, food engineer Huang Jianye, and the company's kitchen aunt Li, plus a few helpers, are trying to braise eels.
At this time, more than a dozen eel dishes are already displayed on the stainless steel square table.
These eel dishes were not cooked by Aunt Li, but purchased and packaged from various food stalls in the city.
"This one tastes the best, which one made it?" Li Xinhua glanced at the label, which read: Axiong Farmhouse, Nanfen Village, Pubian Town.
Huang Jianye took out his mobile phone and called up the video: "I took pictures of their kitchen, and there was a video of them cooking eel."
Everyone looked at it for a while and then looked at Aunt Li.
"I'll try it and see if I can make it."
A morning passed, and everyone was making braised eel, adjusting the ingredients, and testing the taste.
Until about eight o'clock in the evening.
The 23rd adjusted recipe.
After Li Xinhua rinsed his mouth, he took a pair of chopsticks and put the eel meat wrapped in brown sauce into his mouth. He tasted it carefully for a while: "The taste is almost the same this time."
Others also rinsed their mouths and took off their chopsticks.
"Well, it's really almost the same. You can hardly tell the difference."
A bald middle-aged employee put down his chopsticks; "There is still a little difference. That food stall uses wild live eels, and we use frozen eels. But what's a little strange is that our eels don't seem to have much soil." Fishy smell, have you ever tasted the fishy smell? ”
Aunt Li shook her head: "No, I'm usually a little sensitive to earthy smells. The eel from that food stall does have an earthy smell. If it's not wrapped in sauce or eaten cold, the earthy smell will be very obvious. ”
In fact, they didn't know that although the spawning female eels eliminated from the breeding farm had been frozen, the geophysin in these eels had been depleted due to the fact that they had been cultured in the breeding pool for more than a month and the feed specially formulated by Jiang Miao. Seven, seven, eight, eight.
Therefore, the earthy smell of these eliminated egg-laying female eels will be reduced to a very low level, and with the sauce covering it up, even people who are extremely sensitive to the earthy smell will find it difficult to detect it.
Li Xinhua thought for a while: "Let's do an experiment! Keep some of it warm, let some cool, freeze some and heat it in the microwave. Then take some eel dishes from the food stalls and test them together to compare the situation."
"That's fine."
Two hours later.
Everyone compared the three conditions of keeping warm, after cooling at room temperature, and after freezing and reheating. The same test was also conducted on five eel dishes from food stalls.
After comparison, they felt the obvious difference.
Li Xinhua made a summary: "The food from the food stalls is only suitable for hot eating. Once it is cold, there will be an obvious earthy smell. The eels in our factory will not have an obvious earthy smell regardless of whether it is cold or hot." "Manager, you Are you going to use formula No. 23?" Huang Jianye asked.
"Well, just use this recipe! But I will try it in a big pot tomorrow to see if there is any difference in taste."
Huang Jianye suggested: "If this is the case, then I will design the ingredient list as soon as possible."
"Okay."
Less than five days later, it was September 15th.
Just before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Xinhua came to the company with a large box of canned eels.
Jiang Miao happened to be eating in the cafeteria.
Seeing Li Xinhua carrying a big box, he already guessed what it was: "Manager Li, has the canned food been developed?"
"Yes, I have trial-produced three batches in the past few days. This was just produced today. Chairman, please try it." Li Xinhua said while taking out a yellow can from the carton.
Jiang Miao took the can and looked at the design. This style was okay.
The lemon yellow paint on the surface of the can is not a bare tinplate, but a lemon yellow paint and the logo and product name of Hailufeng Cannery; the side is also lemon yellow paint and sprayed on the ingredient list, nutritional label, Production date, etc.
Turn it over and there is a pull-tab cover at the bottom.
He put his fingers through the pull tab and pulled it open, and the cover was pulled open.
Inside the can is a brown sauce, large pieces of eel meat, and boiled peanuts used as side dishes.
Pick up the chopsticks and pick up a large piece of fish and put it into your mouth.
"Yes, there is no obvious earthy smell. Mom, please give it a try."
Jiang Miao handed the can to the mother next to her.
My mother took a piece, tasted it, and nodded: "It tastes a bit like the food stall in Nanfen."
"Old madam, we are just imitating that food stall." Li Xinhua explained with a smile.
Jiang Miao then ordered: "Just produce according to this formula!"
"Chairman, how much does a can cost?"
“It’s almost the same as the market.”
"If this is the case, then I recommend a wholesale price of 12 yuan per can and a recommended retail price of 15 yuan."
"Okay." Jiang Miao nodded.
In fact, he didn't pay much attention to the cannery business. After all, canning is destined to be a low-profit industry.
The cost of a canned eel is not small. The cost of the fish meat is 3 yuan, the tinplate can is 0.8 yuan, the packaging and printing are 0.5 yuan, and the ingredients are 0.8 yuan. These costs add up to 5.1 yuan.
Then there’s labor, space, equipment depreciation, utilities, transportation, plus taxes.
The profit from a can is about 1 to 2 yuan.
7 tons of eel meat can produce 70,000 cans of canned eel. Even if all are sold, the profit will only be 70,000 yuan.
If the eel farms hadn't produced a steady stream of culled female eels, which were difficult to sell directly, he wouldn't have bothered to set up a cannery.
Then Jiang Miao thought of another thing: "By the way, Manager Li, I will ask the purchaser to purchase a batch directly and send them to all employees as Mid-Autumn Festival gifts, one box for each person."
"Okay, anyway, the three batches of trial production have some problems with the appearance printing, and they happened to be consumed internally." Li Xinhua nodded.
That afternoon, the cannery sent dozens of boxes of canned eels to the headquarters.
Jiang Miao sent a notice on the company's WeChat, asking all employees to come and receive Mid-Autumn Festival gifts this evening.
A box of 24 cans of canned eel, together with the four-piece mooncake gift box Jiang Miao ordered from Suixiang Pastry in the city, and a 100-yuan red envelope were distributed to all employees as Mid-Autumn Festival gifts.
(End of chapter)